Teddy Blass is an award-winning American film composer and music producer. He began studying music as a child by teaching himself piano, and then later becoming classically trained on the french horn. He studied Music Production later on in college and ultimately majored in Digital Media at the University of Central Florida.
From 2003 to 2005, Teddy worked as an in-house producer for FlatFoot Records in Orlando, Florida. He co-produced EP albums the bands Early Next Year and Kingsbury. He also worked as an assistant engineer on FlatFoot Records recording artist Pretty Ugly's debut album Walk a Mile in My Shoes. From August 2004 to December 2004, Teddy served as the Vice President of Graphics for the label. He left FlatFoot Records in 2005.
In 2007, Teddy ventured in to the world of music for multi-media. He started writing original scores for a number of short films and independent video games. His first original score for film was for director Cristopher Mertens' short film The Grinder. His working relationship with award-winning game designer Alex Hodgkiss also began that year when the two collaborated on a number of independent video game titles.
In 2009, Teddy did a remix for Ace of Base as part of their new project. The remix was praised by the band and has earned a high reputation on the internet. Teddy also served as Composer and Sound Designer on Plainvue Software's Order of the Abacus series of math-based video games. In August 2009, Teddy wrote an original work for the end credits of the award-winning micro-short film Confession, which was based on the short story At Confession by Harvey Stanbrough.
In 2010, Teddy and long-time friend, Justin Boller, started a production team known as The Wav. Their first project was creating the Playoffs Theme Song for the Orlando Magic. Other 2010 projects included scoring a corporate documentary for Honda, and scoring the first 2 seasons of the web series Generation Why.
In early 2011, Teddy scored a short film titled FunMachine, which was later nominated for Golden Tripod Award for Best Soundtrack. In June 2011 at the CMF International Grand Finale at the Stephen J. Ross Theatre in Los Angeles, Teddy won and accepted the Golden Tripod Award for Best Soundtrack. He will reteam with the writer and co-director of FunMachine for a feature length film, planned for release in 2012, titled 15 Minutes of Faye.